While the days are long gone when a headkeeper's game book might show 3000 brace of grouse from a day's shooting and the loaders' hands would be singed from handling red-hot guns, game hunting has attracted growing opposition.

Both airmen are weapons loaders with the 77th Bomb Squadron at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D.

A loader hands him the gun to bring down the quarry which is then retrieved from the undergrowth by trained hounds.

2 [in combination] A gun, machine, or lorry which is loaded in a specified way:a front-loader